May Day statement from the PCMLE of Ecuador

Only the Struggle of the Peoples Will Break the Chains of Capitalist Domination and Exploitation!

Workers!

The memory of the heroic deeds of the Chicago martyrs, who 128 years ago gave their lives to win the 8-hour work day, once again calls us to march together this May 1 to let the world know that we the workers and peoples of Ecuador have rights to gain and, above all, a new world to win.

In our country the real economic, political and social changes are yet to come, or rather, we must win them with a genuine revolution!

The caricature that goes by the name “citizens’ revolution” is being further unmasked each passing day as a political project of a bourgeois faction that supports a modernizing capitalism to take advantage to the maximum of the profits that society provides only to the ruling classes and foreign capital.

Beyond the stifling government propaganda that tries to show the fiction of an Ecuador that is advancing and progressing for the good of the neediest, and that now pompously presents itself as “the Ecuadorian miracle,” there is little that is useful and much to reject.

What miracle do Correa’s forces speaks of if, despite having had years of economic prosperity because of the high prices of oil on the international market and the chain of taxes that punish the workers and peoples, that have mortgaged the country to foreign capital with loans reminiscent of the periods of the sell-out neoliberal governments?

More than $14 billion of foreign debt hang over Ecuador today, but the greed for economic resources has led the government to resume the external debt with the World Bank, about which he said in October 2007 that “the farther we are from it, the better it will be for us.” Not content with the billions of dollars in credit that the international body has given him, he shouts to raise it to five billion. What happened to the supposed patriotism, dignity and sovereign attitude of the citizen’s revolution?

He tries to justify the return to the arms of the IMF and World Bank with the argument that now the agency has not imposed conditions. He did not need it because the government had announced beforehand the adjustment policies: the elimination of the gas subsidy and consequently the raising of its price, which we reject.

To prevent 200,000 youths from entering the universities, to make thousands of workers and public employees unemployed, to repress anyone who protests and put in prison and / or on trial two hundred Ecuadorians on charges of terrorism, to waste millions of dollars in propaganda and to allow government officials to steal further millions and provide them with impunity, is this part of that miracle?

The Ecuador in which we live, work and struggle every day is very different from the fantasy country that the government shows us in its propaganda. That is why social discontent is growing and every day more people are distancing themselves from government demagoguery. This is shown by the results of the February 23 elections, in which Rafael Correa, the Government and Alianza Pais suffered a severe defeat and could not fulfill its aim of eliminating the electoral registration of leftist organizations such as the MPD and Pachakutik.

The pro-Correa forces are aware of the loss of support, which is why they do not want to allow the demand for a referendum to determine whether or not to exploit the oil in the Yasuni-ITT. The Government and the National Electoral Council are trying to make a mockery of the will of more than 750,000 Ecuadorians who signed the petition for the referendum. We must not allow this mockery. Let the people’s voice be heard and their will respected!

Workers

Nothing of the little that this capitalist society gives us came by the will of those who live from the exploitation of our labor; on the contrary, we have won it with enormous effort, in street battles that have often cost the lives of the people’s fighters. With this experience we must continue to fight to defend our rights, which they want to violate, to win our essential demands, which cannot be postponed.

Our best weapons for this are unity, organization and action. Our Party welcomes the efforts of the social organizations to deepen their joint work and recognizes it as essential to maintain the unity of the trade unions in the FUT [Workers’ United Front]; calls for strengthening the organizations such as UGTE [General Union of Ecuadorean Workers], UCAE [Union of Peasant Organizations of Ecuador], FESE [Federation of Secondary Students of Ecuador], FEUE [Federation of University Students of Ecuador] , CONAIE [Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador], UNE [National Union of Educators], FEUNASSC [United National Federation of Peasant Social Security Affiliates], the Popular Front, etc. and to develop joint action of the leftist parties and movements in the Plurinational Unity of the Left. The government is making enormous efforts to control and / or destroy the independent popular organizations: we must not allow this!

May 1 is a day of worldwide celebration, in which the workers and peoples of the world express their rejection of the domination and exploitation of capital and anticipate their emancipation. Together with them, our Party raises its internationalist banners to reaffirm its commitment to work to bring to victory the social revolution in our country, as a contribution to the victory of the world proletarian revolution.

Particularly, this May 1, the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador commemorates two transcendental celebrations this year: the 50th anniversary of the founding of our party and the 20th anniversary of the formation of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO), which coincide on August 1. These are reasons to redouble our efforts to make the victory of the revolution and socialism a reality.

Long live the struggle of the working class and peoples of Ecuador!

Long live the struggle of the workers of the whole world!

Only the struggle of the peoples can break the chains of domination and exploitation !

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Quotes

“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.”

-- V.I. Lenin

"No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men."

-- Enver Hoxha

"If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?"

-- Ho Chi Minh

“Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.”

-- Enver Hoxha

"A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains."

-- Karl Marx

"Private property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all instruments of production and the distribution of all products according to common agreement - in a word, what is called the communal ownership of goods."

-- Friedrich Engels

"The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights."

-- Enver Hoxha, 1967

"Today, in fact, ‘Stalinism’ has become a meaningless term of abuse employed to denote political views with which one disagrees."

-- Bill Bland

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

-- Desmond Tutu

“The class struggle does not disappear under the dictatorship of the proletariat; it merely assumes different forms... The class of exploiters, the landowners and capitalists, has not disappeared and cannot disappear all at once under the dictatorship of the proletariat. The exploiters have been smashed, but not destroyed. They still have an international base in the form of international capital, of which they are a branch. They still retain certain means of production in part, they still have money, they still have vast social connections."

-- V.I. Lenin, 1919

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the neighbouring marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having separated ourselves into an exclusive group and with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation. And now some among us begin to cry out: Let us go into the marsh! And when we begin to shame them, they retort: What backward people you are! Are you not ashamed to deny us the liberty to invite you to take a better road! Oh, yes, gentlemen! You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the marsh. In fact, we think that the marsh is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don’t clutch at us and don’t besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are ‘free’ to go where we please, free to fight not only against the marsh, but also against those who are turning towards the marsh!"

-- Lenin, “What is to be Done?”

"I have not brought you liberty, I found it here, among you."

-- George Kastrioti "Skanderbeg"

"[The children's] life will be better than ours; much of what was our life, they will not experience. Their lives will be less cruel. [...] Our generation has succeeded in doing a job of astounding historical importance. The cruelty of our life, forced upon us by conditions, will be understood and justified. It will all be understood, all of it!"

-- V.I. Lenin

"There is one, and only one, kind of real internationalism, and that is—working whole-heartedly for the development of the revolutionary movement and the revolutionary struggle in one’s own country, and supporting (by propaganda, sympathy, and material aid) this struggle, this, and only this, line, in every country without exception."

-- V.I. Lenin, 1917

"When the enemy attacks you, it means you are on the right road."

-- Enver Hoxha

"You'll hang me now, but I am not alone. There are two hundred million of us. You can't hang us all."

-- Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya

"The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian."

-- Enver Hoxha

"Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.”

-- J. V. Stalin, “Anarchism or Socialism?”

"You speak of Sinified socialism. There is nothing of the sort in nature. There is no Russian, English, French, German, Italian socialism, as much as there is no Chinese socialism. There is only one Marxist-Leninist socialism."

-- J.V. Stalin, 1949

“Nixon is to go to Peking! We are not in agreement. Therefore I think we should write to the Chinese a letter saying that we are opposed to this decision. Nixon is an aggressor, a murderer of peoples, an enemy of socialism — especially of Albania, which the USA has never recognised as a people’s democratic state and against which it has hatched a thousand plots. The invitation to Nixon will benefit imperialism and world reaction, and will gravely harm the new Marxist-Leninist Parties which have looked upon China and Mao Tse-tung as the pillar of the revolution and as defenders of Marxism-Leninism."

-- Enver Hoxha

"It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real Marxist-Leninist party, it is only the working class through armed revolution, through violence, that can and must bury the traitorous revisionists."

-- Enver Hoxha

“There were two ‘Reigns of Terror,’ if we would but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the guillotine, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”